In the parable of the sower in Matthew 13:23, Jesus explains that we have three different quantities from the reaping from this good soil: thirty-fold, sixty-fold and the hundred-fold. This can be likened to the Temple, the house of Worship, that which was created to be a House of Prayer. Those that are in the thirty-fold would be those who reside in the outer court, those that are in the sixty-fold are in the inner court and those that are in the hundred-fold are those dwelling in the Holy of Holies. 

Have you ever thought about where you reside? You are all receiving the same seed in your soil so when the harvest comes, where will you be found? When they come to reap from your harvest, are they going to find you in the outer courts? Are they going to find you in the inner court? Or are they going to find you in the Holy of Holies? Where is your seed coming up? Where is your harvest? Where are you today? Where do you want to be? If you are in the outer courts, do you want to stay in the outer court or do you want to transition to the inner court? If you are in the inner court, do you want to move into Holy of Holies? Where do you want to be? 

Why do I ask these questions? Because, these are things we need to seriously ask ourselves. Jesus is talking to his disciples—those who walked closely with Him. His twelve, along with others closest to him, approximately 120 who had come to sit at His feet day after day, traveling with Him and sitting at His feet. They followed Him continuously; they had given up their jobs to follow Him and they longed for Him to sow into their hearts the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. 

Have you ever asked yourself how much of those mysteries you want deposited into your soil? How much are you pressing in to receive the nutrients of the Son so you can be developed and receive of His mysteries? It’s the mysteries that draw us into the Holy of Holies. The intercessor believes they should be, at the very least, within the inner court, right? Should you or are you pressing to be in the Holy of Holies? Where is your heart? I really want you to ask yourself these questions. Where is your heart? Because where your heart is, that is where your treasure is, where your treasure is, that is where your heart is. Where is your heart? Is it in the Holy of Holies? Is that where your treasure is? Is it in the presence of God day in and day out? Is it keeping yourself purified so that you can be in the Holy of Holies? 

The high priest could only go in there on the Day of Atonement, right? He had to have a rope around his foot so if he dropped dead because he was impure, they could drag him out. Through the blood of our Savior, we can enter in, so I ask it again: Where are you? The presence of God is in the Holy of Holies—that is where the fire of God falls, the fire that refines and purifies. When the Israelites pitched their tents in the desert and the presence of God fell on the Holy of Holies, they could see the flame falling from heaven. They could look outside their tent door and see when the fire of God fell on the Holy of Holies. The Bible said that they would go without the camp to enter the presence of God, not in the midst of the people, but outside the camp to go into the presence of God. 

Ask yourself these questions: Where is your heart? Where is your treasure? What is your harvest? The answer to these questions will determine what your year is going to be like. I warned that the 2020 shaking was coming back in October 2019, so over the last several months, have you been able to answer these questions? This message went out as a live audio and was placed on our website. Since then, many prophets have said we are in a shaking so when I ask these questions today, I can’t help but wonder if the Lord set this transcription to the side to give the opportunity for a reevaluation halfway through 2020. 

Ask yourself, have you grown closer or further from the place you wanted to be? What can you do to reconcile this if you aren’t where you want to be? Where do you want your heart to be? Where do you want your treasure to be? Where do you want your harvest to be? Where do you want to be? Do you want to be counted among those in the one hundred-fold—in the Holy of Holies? You might wonder if that place is only for His prophets but that is a misconception, and believing that misconception can and will keep you from the deeper life that God has for you. 

Friends, there are not only prophets in this most coveted place, there must be, out of necessity, intercessors, pastors, apostles, evangelists, and lay people. So I ask you, when I say that 2020 is a year of shaking and I tell you that everything that keeps you from entering through the door that lies between the outer court and the inner court must be set aside, I am telling you that a gift has been granted to the children of God. The grace to lay everything that prevents you from going on to the most holy place is here. It can be shaken loose, all that keeps you stagnant, everything in between that door and the Holy of Holies needs to be removed. Why? So LIFE can be birthed in and through you! 

God will not force you friends, however He who began a good work in you will finish it if you are willing. Yes, if you are willing and desire to enter the inner court and will submit yourself to Him, He will loosen everything that lies between the door of the outer court and the inner court and uproot it from your life to pave the pathway for you to be in the Holy of Holies. 

To be continued next week…

Blessings and love,

Ricci Wilson

There is a change coming; the tide is turning. The way we have done it in the past is not the way we can do it in the future. How things will be done in the future we have not yet completely learned, which can be very disconcerting, but I promise you that if you will stay true to the path, the call, and the Word, you will not get lost. You cannot find God without the Word, and you cannot truly find the Word without God, who alone can interpret what He has written.

The day is here and the pressing has begun. God is pressing the grapes. Many are feeling the tribulation of the pressing; many are feeling the brokenness of the pressing. Think about what it would feel like to be a grape in the winepress. From the day you were born you had skin, substance, and a purpose—to grow up and be sweet and come to the richness of your color. Then someone throws you into a winepress and the first thing that happens is that you are squeezed out of your skin with no identifiable form. You can no longer relate to yourself as a grape. What was once your comfort no longer exists. You are thinking that you do not even know who or what you are anymore. Here I am, in a vat of juice with a bunch of grapes I do not know, and that is assuming that I might still be a grape!

What is the purpose for all this crushing? I thought I was going to sit on some beautiful table and be a delectable dessert; they would come and ooh and aah at my beauty and here I am, crushed into a pulp. I do not even know what shape I am anymore; all the juice that made me so attractive is gone. Relate to a grape. There’s a crushing and a pressing and it is beginning in the Church. You get thrown into the vat and a foot comes down. When that foot comes down for the second time, you are screaming because you felt the pressure from the first pressing. There is a crushing, a disfiguring, a confusion and a dismantling of everything that ever felt comfortable. You are never going to find out what you were created to be until you get your own image of that purpose, crushed. It is okay to be crushed; it is alright not to be perfect in the eyes of the world, the Church, or even in your own eyes. It is okay to look foolish and walk through the fields of shame. If you go there, you are walking with the greats such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Elijah. They all walked through it and it is okay that everyone else does not understand.

When God begins to speak to the desire of your heart that He has personally put in you, you just know that you are not satisfied with what you've heard in the past anymore. The people you love the most do not understand what is taking place inside of you, and you yourself do not understand what is taking place inside of you. You just know that you're not satisfied with the same kind of enjoyments you used to run to. Sometimes you go to bed at night feeling an aching inside because you are not satisfied; you don't know how to find the answer to what ails you, and that is okay. 

May I tell you how God works? When God is calling you out into a new place in Him, He starts by silently placing something in your soul. You rarely even know that He’s done it, but He places it in your soul like a tiny little seed, and the seed enters the seedbed of your soul and begins to germinate. While the seed is germinating, things inside of you start going into disarray. You cannot do things the way you used to anymore; you can't necessarily say why. It is just miserable trying to do it the old way. You do not know what is going on inside of you because it is a silent work. You are feeling discombobulated, like someone has picked you up and shaken you and the pieces are still falling, and you do not know quite how they will all end up. There's an aching and a longing in you to have everything settle down and to again have security, strength, and maybe even respect. You might be dealing with the fact that respect has been taken from you and you want, with everything inside of you, to have stability and to know where you’ve been, where you are, and where you're going. It's like someone who has lived by a day planner since they’ve graduated college and then all of a sudden the Lord says that He wants them to throw it away. What do you do without a day planner and how do you remember what you are supposed to do? It seems as though everything has been changed and you are now walking minute by minute instead of in orderly twenty-four hour time frames. 

When the shaking begins, it is amazing what gets shaken. Relationships get shaken that you never dreamed would shake. You endure losses you never thought you would have to encounter. You find yourself believing things you never knew you would need to believe. If you have been saved for many years, maybe there is an alteration taking place in your doctrine. Maybe you once believed like the Presbyterian and then you find yourself moving into more of a Baptist stream, and from that to a Pentecostal or Charismatic stream. One of the people on my leadership team came out of a Methodist church into the Charismatic movement through the Brownsville Revival. She said that it shook up her world and everything she ever thought she believed. There is a shaking going on; God is changing your mind about things. He is trying to prepare a place to plant His wisdom so that He can pick you up and move you into the place He needs you to be, right on time and fully prepared. In all this disheveling, what is His highest desire? That you might seek God. That in all the disheveling, you might come to desire Him more than stability, comfort, or understanding – more than anything you’ve ever desired in your life.

He wants you to come to a place where you so desire Him that you will go through whatever disheveling you need to go through in order to be filled with the light, for He cannot put the light where darkness reigns. He must shake out the darkness of misunderstanding and misperceptions so that He can put His light in those areas and bring you into the place, the position and the condition you need to walk in for your purpose and your plan to be realized in you – for God’s holy plan for your life. When He finally gets you to a place where you want this bad enough, you will finally come to a place where it does not matter what it takes – even forty years in the desert – as long as, at the end of that forty years, you are beholding His face.

To be continued next week…

In Him,

Nita Johnson